In that video above, Neville is suggesting they’re in real trouble.
I’m sure someone on here will know far more about football finance than I do…if Utd tank this year…really stink it up…bottom 10 finish, are they at risk of going into some sort of death spiral??
Stop building our hopes up.
They still seem to be able to offer silly wages but I wonder if the price tags are harder for them.
I know they had no chance of Darwin but I’d have expected them to throw silly money around but they didn’t bother.
Obviously they’re a former commercial behemoth…how bad do they need to be and for how long before they’re Sunderland Part Deux??
Their money is so heavily derived from commercial income that they have had a remarkable resilience. As long as companies want to associate their brand with Manchester United, ManU remains one of the biggest clubs in the world. It will take people bursting out laughing at the site of the logo, small children being mocked for their ManU shirts, that sort of thing.
I for one have already got started…though to be fair, seeing their miniscule centre back who was supposed to be the solution subbed off at the half helps the amusement factor.
Is that other woman there to hold a spare microphone in case one of the others break?
Only in the bargain section.
Neville’s agenda against the Glazers is getting laughable he cant take it when people call him out for his bollox. He shouldn’t be allowed to be involved on Man U games anymore hes not employed by Sky to be an anti Glazers mouth piece.
You’re forgetting that Sky Sports was set up as a pro-Man U organisation.
Speak for yourself matey. This wing man malarkey is tough going when your Captain is moving at glacial speeds.
I mentioned in the PL thread that their arrogance, their belief that they have a right to be at the top winning things, is what is holding them back. Jose was doing hard work to turn the club around and part of the reason he wasnt supported to take that next step was because they were too proud to play his football. It’s only been downhill from there. They cannot accept even now, after this long of being shit, of playing a more basic brand of football to just get some results.
Likewise, it is affected their attitude to remedying the massive mismanagement of their squad. Arteta over the past 18 months or so has taken it on the chin of taking short term pain to clear the decks of players they couldnt win with and while they might not be ready to win yet they have now got themselves to a point where they can move forward. Utd are just unable to do that. They just continue to think that a rotten core can be fixed by throwing 100 million at it, and the reality is no group like this has ever been fixed by just addition. You have to the surgery to get rid of the bad bits, and when its this extensive, as it was at Arsenal, you’ve got to accept a season or two of not competing. They refuse to do that and that is why it is not getting better and wont get better.
Smells like team spirit
They’re both making bad arguments. Neville is right that you cannot just continue here slating the players when they have already failed in this way over and over. This was still essentially Ole’s team so what reason do we have to expect anything different than what we saw last season? But Neville’s argument is also outdated. Murtaugh might have failed so far, but he is a football man through and through. His criticism (bankers making football decisions) was as if Woodward was still running things.
Manchester United have already lost the same amount of Premier League games as Liverpool did in the entire PL season last year 
I think we have proven Ole was a far better manager than everyone thought. He got much better performances out of them. Maguire actually looked functional, if not ever worth his price tag, under Ole.
Wonder if they’ll think that throwing more money at the squad before the window shuts will make the difference?
Hope so.
